Norwegian Air Shuttle AS said it plans to confront Boeing Co. about the increasing number of technical difficulties on its new 787 Dreamliner jets that are increasingly disrupting operation of long-distance flights.
“We are going to tell them that this situation is far from good enough,” Anne-Sissel Skaanvik, a spokeswoman for the Fornebu, Norway-based carrier, said by e-mail. “We have not had the reliability that we had expected from brand new planes, so something must happen, fast.”
Norwegian Air has grappled with technical glitches on the new jet, from cockpit oxygen supply issues that delayed a flight to New York from Oslo on Sunday to brake difficulties that hit the second 787 in Sweden this month. The malfunctions come after the global fleet of Dreamliners was grounded after some batteries on planes operated by Japanese carriers caught fire.
Norwegian, which last year ordered 222 Boeing and Airbus airliners valued at $21.5 billion, is flying new routes and opening bases outside the Nordic region.
